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30
Dec

All Things Are Ready: A Bride’s Complete Christian Wedding Planner – Amy Hayes

   Posted by: Doug    in Bible, Books, Theology

Amy's Forthcoming Book

My dear wife has written a fantastic book to help Christian brides to plan their wedding. Nancy Wilson has written a forward to the book, which we are very grateful for! In part she writes:

“This wedding planner walks the bride through all the preparations and keeps her focused on the important things, like staying in fellowship with her groom and her parents. It’s full of suggestions and ideas, with a strict time-line to keep the bride on task. I know I will recommend this helpful guide to all those planning weddings, and I think we’ll keep one in the church office for check out.“

It is being published by Doorpost, and should be shipping in February. It is available now for pre-order now at the Dooposts website. Doorposts has also created a website just for this book.

All Things Are Ready is a new wedding planner book that will help you organize a beautiful wedding. Unlike most wedding planners available today, this planner looks at weddings from a distinctly Christian, Bible-based viewpoint.

We’ve celebrated four weddings in our family (so far), so we were excited when Amy Hayes (who coordinated at three of our weddings), asked us to help publish her book. Amy is a pastor’s wife in our church, and she has considerable experience as a wedding coordinator and organizer.

Amy wrote this planner with two basic questions in mind: “What do you need in order to plan a wedding efficiently and joyfully?” and “What does the Bible say about weddings?”

Answering those two questions led to three basic assumptions on which this planner is based:

  • Planning your wedding doesn’t have to take very long (unless you want it to).
  • The cost of your wedding should not exceed what your family can afford.
  • A Christian wedding is all about rejoicing in what the Lord has done in the lives of 2 people and their families.

All Things Are Ready is full of to-do lists, planning resources, tips, budgeting and timeline tools, options for personalizing your wedding, ideas for portraying biblical themes, and devotions to keep your focus on the Lord and the work He is doing in your life through marriage.

Spread the word that the difinitive book for planning weddings has now been written and is available! :lol:

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29
May

Courtship – Dating – Dourting or Whatever

   Posted by: Doug    in Family, Family Pictures, Social Issues

My dear wife sent me this link to Nancy Wilson’s recent blog post in Femina: Courtship In the Air. In this post she links to two other posts by her husband, Doug Wilson, from which he suggests 21 Questions to prospective suitors and prospective wives. These are great questions and well worth remembering when your time comes to ask them!

David and Kathy's Wedding

I have advocated a “courtship”  model (whatever that means)  of approaching marriage, and have found that the whole discussion seems to invite more questions than it answers. I still think it is a helpful discussion because it causes people to think more self-consciously about how we can help our children think about the future as they prepare for marriage, what kind of relationship we hope to have with them during the process of finding and deciding on marriage, and help them to be wise and godly as they choose their spouse.

Jon and Michelle's Wedding

Many years ago after a long conversation with some friends about that I think about courtship I wrote a paper called an Outline of the Journey to Marriage. I have gone over it with my children to help us talk about various issues related to courtship. I don’t believe this is “THE” way to do courtship; I don’t believe there are scriptures that can be used to support every point I made; I don’t think it is for every family. But I do think there may possibly be some reasonable and wise ideas that some folks may find useful.

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